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Should UFC fighters get paid "residuals" ???

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TL/DR - should UFC fighters get paid for the continued airing and streaming of their fights and highlights?



Actors and actresses get paid "residuals" which is pay for the continued re-airing of content.

For example the cast of Friends still make roughly $20mil/year in pay from the income generated from syndication/streaming income.

Here’s How Much Jennifer Aniston and Other Actors Get Paid for Their Reruns https://share.google/atFfxnd58dm3ZZ0LL


UFC takes advantage of a loophole of sorts by way of their antiquated contract terms which coerce fighters to sign away their likeness, I believe in perpetuity, for the UFC to use however they please including advertising.


Any other industry would have to pay the people in their ads and pay royalties for continuing to air any content in which people are prominently featured, particularly when those people are the main reason that viewers will watch and purchase content.

My wife still gets checks in the mail for acting work she did 20+ years ago, they HAVE TO pay that out by law (even if the check is for less than the postage) for any shows that continue to air (actors get fucked via streaming but that is a different discussion)


Nate Quarry once discussed in an interview that while

A) yes it sucked that he only got paid $50k to fight Rich Franklin and get brutally KOed, the much more painful kick in the pants was
B) having to watch the highlight footage of him getting brutally KTFO air on every PPV and probably a majority of UFC advertising for a decade - and not getting paid a single penny for that advertising promotional content of his likeness.

Even college athletes have FIINALLY gotten to a point where they get compensated for the use of their likeness, name, merchandise, and jersey sales, etc, which makes the universities MILLIONS of dollars.

Fair is fair. ... at least it should be

even if the world is still a big fucking corrupt mess, at least attempts have been made to improve the exploitation of athletes - but in all of those other cases the athletes achieved this through strikes, collective bargaining agreements and UNIONS- which the UFC has gone to great lengths to crush in MMA.
 
5% of the sag minimum which doesn't even apply here but if all fighters signed up..... Each fighter would be looking at around $400 per event.
 
GSP is worth 20 mill. He also has a budlight sponshership among others. He can thank his legendary ufc career for that

Anderson Silva is a multimillionare and is still cashing checks at 50. He can thank his legendary ufc career to that.

Justin Gajie was just invited and won 2place in some random sporting event. Prize was a ferrarie or some shit. He only got the invite cuz of his ufc career

Max Holloway is living the good life in Hawaii

DC is a millionare and is still cashing checks from multiple revune paths. All ufc related

Forrest Griffin is a millionare and has a cozy UFC office job

Chris Leben just landed a fulltime refree gig. He can thank his lengthy ufc career for that

Even that chick Page van whatever is a millionare and still cashing checks from instagram and only fans. All because she was a ufc fighter

My point is when it comes to thier money us fans need to stfu they may not get paid residuals but the UFC is still taking care of thier fighters finicially in some way shape or form. Its not like these dudes are eating outta trash cans

On a real note I only have $139 dollars till payday ill happily take a 2k/2k contract. Plus i get to be on tv sweet....
 
I like the idea, but who knows how much fight pass really generates. I assume it won't be that much it's for kind of a niche sport. But hey maybe fighters like Leonard Garcia vs KZ, might make some chunk for putting on a great war. It's a cool idea for lifelong revenue, might give old fighters more money than they were paid at the time of the fight.
 
There is a ton they would and should be getting, including dividing about half of the 7.7 billion-dollar broadcast deal among themselves if they had a fighter/players unions like in the NFL and NBA.

They never fought hard enough for that though, and will have to keep begging Dana for the $50k he’d be dropping on the poker table.

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You want them to fight even less frequently?
on the flip side they should be offered a pension if they fight x number of times. Thats very normal for sports leagues if a player reaches a certain amount of years played. Even if its 1000 a month or something that goes a long way for some of these guys post-fight career.
 
GSP is worth 20 mill. He also has a budlight sponshership among others. He can thank his legendary ufc career for that

Anderson Silva is a multimillionare and is still cashing checks at 50. He can thank his legendary ufc career to that.

Justin Gajie was just invited and won 2place in some random sporting event. Prize was a ferrarie or some shit. He only got the invite cuz of his ufc career

Max Holloway is living the good life in Hawaii

DC is a millionare and is still cashing checks from multiple revune paths. All ufc related

Forrest Griffin is a millionare and has a cozy UFC office job

Chris Leben just landed a fulltime refree gig. He can thank his lengthy ufc career for that

Even that chick Page van whatever is a millionare and still cashing checks from instagram and only fans. All because she was a ufc fighter

My point is when it comes to thier money us fans need to stfu they may not get paid residuals but the UFC is still taking care of thier fighters finicially in some way shape or form. Its not like these dudes are eating outta trash cans

On a real note I only have $139 dollars till payday ill happily take a 2k/2k contract. Plus i get to be on tv sweet....

There's always one.
 
But why are you comparing them to actors?

Do other athletes get paid residuals?

I don't think FIFA pays for the games that are on their library.
 
Even that chick Page van whatever is a millionare and still cashing checks from instagram and only fans. All because she was a ufc fighter
Not to mention making 6 figures from #PowerSlap, which also helped boost her OF subs and IG followers ...thanks to her being a former UFC fighter.

Residuals are everywhere; most fighters just don't have the gumption

In the end though, they could use some kickbacks. Not their fault they were born this way.
 
yea but the capitalists who believe they are entitled to your labor believe otherwise
 
is there an example in any sport where the athletes get paid residuals?
 
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